American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...The New Orleans Advocate, August 25, 2015. Pipeline from Southwest to Atlantic Coast, 1944. Photograph courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USW4- 029616. Without losing sight of technical details,...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...hundred individuals). Others will make their way to private re-entry facilities (with varying degrees of effectiveness), and some will move into halfway houses. The majority will return to where they...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...institution. "In those pre-tape days," he muses, recorders "consisted of a heavy monstrosity. . . ." After joining the FWP, "Zora was able to again wangle it on loan from...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...Land," http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/272. Accessed October 7, 2011. Her photographs of abandoned commissaries, churches and houses sit alongside scenes of mostly barren fields in winter or early spring. Clay’s work does not...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...the shoals near where my family settled almost two hundred years ago in Alabama. When I learned my verses almost 50 years ago, to lay up treasure in heaven in...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Alexander discusses growing up in NYC and Washington DC, DC as Upsouth, identifications with Blackness and southernness Part 3: Alexander discusses southernness and urban space, and...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...Harp singing features day- or weekend-long gatherings, where participants sing without an audience from a songbook called The Sacred Harp. The convention in Cork drew a crowd unprecedented among European...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War, Fifteenth Anniversary Edition (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016), 120. Hale sent his letter to Governor Beriah...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...Peter, late of Montgomery Co, decd. Negro man Sandy over 50 years [valued at] $175 Negro man Dave over 50 years $200 Negro man George (?) over 50, $225 Negro...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...of graffiti-covered saltpeter caves manage to conjure both the too-perfect beauty of contemporary nature photographs and the urban grit of images of tagged subways and warehouses. Return is on display...